* lib/logger.rb: improves the amount of documentation that Rdoc

picks up when processing logger.rb by moving the require
  statement back before the comment block.  a patch from Hugh
  Sasse <hgs at dmu.ac.uk>.  [ruby-core:08422]


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@10647 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

lib/logger.rb

@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
 #
 
 
+require 'monitor'
+
+
 #
 # == Description
 #
@@ -174,9 +177,6 @@
 #
 
 
-require 'monitor'
-
-
 class Logger
   VERSION = "1.2.6"
   /: (\S+),v (\S+)/ =~ %q$Id$

lib/readbytes.rb

@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ class TruncatedDataError<IOError
 end
 
 class IO
+  # reads exactly n bytes from the IO stream.
+  # If the data read is nil, raises EOFError.
+  # If the data read is too short, raises TruncatedDataError.
+  # The method TruncatedDataError#data may be used to obtain
+  # the truncated message.
   def readbytes(n)
     str = read(n)
     if str == nil

lib/weakref.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
-# Weak Reference class that does not bother GCing.
+
+require "delegate"
+
+# Weak Reference class that does not bother GCing.  This allows the
+# referenced object to be garbage collected as if nothing else is
+# referring to it.  Because Weakref inherits from Delegator it passes
+# method calls to the object from which it was constructed, so it
+# is of the same Duck Type.
 #
 # Usage:
 #   foo = Object.new
@@ -8,11 +15,9 @@
 #   p foo.to_s			# should be same class
 #   ObjectSpace.garbage_collect
 #   p foo.to_s			# should raise exception (recycled)
-
-require "delegate"
-
 class WeakRef<Delegator
 
+  # RefError is raised if an object cannot be referenced by a WeakRef.
   class RefError<StandardError
   end
 
@@ -41,6 +46,7 @@ class WeakRef<Delegator
     end
   }
 
+  # Create a new WeakRef from +orig+.
   def initialize(orig)
     @__id = orig.object_id
     printf "orig: %p\n", @__id
@@ -58,6 +64,9 @@ class WeakRef<Delegator
     super
   end
 
+  # Return the object this WeakRef references. Raise
+  # RefError if this is impossible.  The object is that
+  # to which method calls are delegated (see Delegator).
   def __getobj__
     unless @@id_rev_map[self.object_id] == @__id
       Kernel::raise RefError, "Illegal Reference - probably recycled", Kernel::caller(2)
@@ -71,6 +80,7 @@ class WeakRef<Delegator
   def __setobj__(obj)
   end
 
+  # Determine if this Weakref still refers to anything.
   def weakref_alive?
     @@id_rev_map[self.object_id] == @__id
   end